PORTER ON PROBATION
CHARGES ADMITTED
COUNSEL’S ADVICE IGNORED
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Aug. 26
The unusual action of a remanded man, calling at the Police .Station and asking that! ho ho brought before the court immediately, iwas described when Herbert Albert Edward Scott, aged 32, a tablet porter, was charged with stealing a, handsaw and obtaining sums totalling £3 by false pretences. Accused’s counsel said that, against his advice, accused was pleading guilty to all charges, saying that he had no hope and it was a case of his word against another’s. He (counsel) thought that accused stole the saw, but that he was not guilty of the other charges. A detective said that Scott told the police that if left on bail he would go away on the Aorangi to America. The magistrate granted six months’ probation -and ordered restitution' of the property.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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144PORTER ON PROBATION Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9
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